Comments

Comment by camarouge

The droprate for these is beyond horrible; out of maybe 200 mobs I killed, only 6 dropped, and here it says the average droprate is 23-25%.

Comment by Shoo

pain in the butt to get these for the warlock mount quest...been searching my AH for weeks

Comment by Seawolfx13

Horrible droprate, best idea is to go to burning steppes, near dracodar and farm those dragon types there, took about 2 hours to get three

Comment by Delphis

So, do they drop, or can you get them from only skinning?I'll check..

Comment by kyaandun

it's skinning only afaik

Comment by Lusterk

Got a little discouraged from the comments here when I went to go farm these for my warlock buddy's mount quest. In the end it took me 35 mobs to get the 3 I needed, which wasn't too bad.

Comment by moenbase

I'm pretty sure patch 2.3 made it much harder to get the Black Dragonscales from the dragonkin in Burning Steppes.After doing the quest Dragonkin Menace http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=4182 i only got 1 scale, it use to be at least 10.Probably due to the fact that they are now non-elite. Even the larger dragons are all non-elite in Burning Steppes. Very easy kill now, but very hard to get the scales. I consider myself lucky though since i already skinned about 5 stacks of the scales pre-2.3.Maybe it's to motivate ppl to do Blackwing Lair more often, or should be taken as a hint 'don't bother with it'. :{

Comment by Terramo

I have consistently been able to sell a single scale for 15g on my server (Scarlet Crusade-Horde). Horrible drop rate, but after a half hour or so of grinding the dragons, I walk away with between 2 and 5 scales.

Comment by vasiliki

So I decided to attempt to farm these, after two hours of farming i walked away with 5 scales, 6 stacks of rugged leather, 3 stacks of thick leather, and a big headache. There was a 3% drop rate on everything on the east side of burning steppes. I tried to farm the higher ups but I'm a bit too low to do it comfortably. I would say get a guild to help you out, just clear it over and over and hopefully you'll get a stack or two.

Comment by Darkwinter

i would highly recommend the northeast part of burning steppes, north of the ogre mound thingy, because two drakes patrol that area and they are by far the best means to get the scales, with a 24%ish droprate, and the dragonkin there drop it for around 12%. if the drakes dont respawn quick, there are also a couple south of blackrock. bear in mind none of these are elite, i believe they were so before patch 2.3. good luck!

Comment by smack80

As a feral druid I solod LBRS to make my UBRS key and I've so far found three groups in a week who want to run that dungeon. People still run UBRS for Onyxia and Blackwing Lair attunement for fun and to complete Quel'Serrar quests. Also with the buff to Spirit regen in 2.4, savvy people want the Ace of Beasts.

Back to the point, I usually get 25-30 Black Dragonscales per run of UBRS when I'm the only skinner, and a run takes less than an hour.

Comment by thetankkine

Just did it tonight for a Guildee...solid 96 kills to get the 3 scales, can't complain though considering how much Rugged Leather is going for on my server right now!

Good luck guys.

Comment by Kurasu

A good place (if difficult one) to farm up these scales is against Emberstrife in Dustwallow Marsh. The respawn rate is terrible (one Emberstrife every 6 minutes) but the drop on Black Dragon Scales is pretty close to those in the UBRS dungeon. He's a level 61 elite who hits like a truck, though, so unless you're farming them at a high level, or with a party, you might find this to be a painful area. However, if you haven't got the UBRS key, this is probably the #1 spot for pure drop rate.

Two scales out of three skinnings, for me; well worth it.

Comment by Felpuppies

Me and another lock farmed these for hours for our warlock quest, once we got 5 they stopped dropping...

Comment by Grindalwald

paid 45g for all three off ah.Scanned for a week and these were the only ones on. Sold by a fellow lock, he had no class.

Comment by Obeliske

The price for these is retarded on Frostwolf... ive got a skinning LW and i used to toss these in the AH all the time when i was leveling him id be lucky to get 3-4g a pop now im leveling my lcok and they are going for 10-15g a pop wtf.... I think im gonna end up just going and farming em myself.

Comment by Kurasu

At one time, Black Dragonscales were needed for the Warlock's 'epic mount' quest. However, this quest has been rendered unnecessary, and maybe even removed (I haven't checked). Because of this, Black Dragonscales are no longer as necessary as they were. Expect the prices to bottom out and these to turn solidly into 'trash drops'.

Comment by jwo7804

how can i get this if no one wants to run blackwing lair on my server, i guess i came late that now the WoTlK is out

Comment by linkadoo92

For those who are going to do the Warlock quest I've got some experiance to share.When I was going to do this with my warlock I got one of the scales on the first 3 mobs, then I got nothing on the next 50 -.-My advice is if you got a lvl 80, go to Blackrock Spire and head for the upper part, the dragons who are outside the door you have to open to get to the upper part got really nice drop rate (for me around 20%) just go and kill them til you got enougth, this will save you everying from 1-2 hours.

Comment by Spyderean

I've been farming this for 5 hours one night, 24 scales. 1 more hour when I woke up for the last.During that I killed 500+ Flamescale Dragonspawn / Wyrmkin, more than double the amount I SHOULD have needed to kill+skin. I dont trust the wowhead droprate, it seems to be more of 5%.

After that the droprate practicly died.

Each rotation I killed about 15* mobs, on average I got one scale per 2 rotations.

Happy farming!

*edit: Downhill there's 8 mobs with 1 drake flying between them every now and then, uphill theres 7.edit2: Farmed again, 3 Scales in one run now. Guess this examples the exponential unreliability of smaller droprates. The smaller it is, the less it is unlikely irregular practical droprates occur.

Comment by Charlotte217

There might be a price drop of sorts, but the armor you can make with it isn't all that bad. There will still be a demand.

Edit: Included my second run in which I made event in the Rookery Room. First run I didn't make it because I wasn't aware of it :(.

Comment by Curycoo

On my server, these are on the AH for about 900 a piece. Extremely crazy, and i doubt they sell, but still... now i have to actually do some WORK to get what i want... ^_^

Comment by Aurorasflame1

I farmed these on Scarlet Crusade server. On first run of Upper and Lower BRS, I got exactly 10 Black Dragonscales. Very poor droprate. Will update with future info if I find someplace better (09/14/12)

27 on second run. So you can see this is completely random as to how many you get per run.

Got about 15 Black Dragonscale from the first two runs and then a bit less for the next two, but the fifth run dropped 24. It's worth doing the Rookery event; that event alone dropped about a third of what I got from each run.

Comment by Havsoga

With the upcoming changes to UBRS in Warlords of Draenor it will be interesting to see if the new mobs also can be skinned for these scales. I'm planning to stockpile some of them to secure my supply, just in case. Black Dragonscale Breastplate sells really good on my server...

Comment by seasaint7

These are farmable in 6.1, though things have changed. You can't zone into BWL like before. Now you have to run to the end of the hallway to the right and zone in with the attunement orb. Bring someone to help you with Razorgore and the rest can be soloed. I killed all bosses and trash and got 29 http://www.wowhead.com/item=15416. Trash does not respawn if all the bosses are killed.

Comment by Kelthuz

Just found a really good way to farm these as a hunter or rogue or any class able to drop aggro, Once you get to a group of three of those Death Talon Wyrmguards, you can kill two of them then just drop aggro with stealth etc, they will instantly respawn while the ones you kill you can loot and skin, note I did this as level 100 so I don't aggro them again when I go loot the dead ones. Best with 30s Feign death ;)

Note: the pack of 3 before Chromaggus is good place.

Probably best if you're a lower lvl farming these to kill them further to where they spawn.

Comment by Kelthuz

>>FOUND THE BEST WAY TO FARM THIS<<Works best if you are nelf hunter, or Hunter at least, once you clear up to the three flying dragons (Ebonroc, Firemaw and Flamegor) there should be a pack of three Death Talon Wyrmguard's just before the Chromaggus encounter.What I did was kill two of them, leaving at least one alive from the pack then remove aggro completely using Feign Death or Shadowmeld, they instantly respawn and you can still loot and skin the two that you've just killed.! Happy Farming :)

Note: even though it says about 40% drop rate, its still better than waiting for the reset to get your scales!

Comment by Omgzjustin

Ladies and gentlemen, I have found your salvation.

If you're looking to farm these scales for the black dragonscale set, I have the perfect method that can rack up hundreds of dragon scales in a few hours, operational in 6.1 after the UBRS changes.

Step 1. Log on your skinner. (Works best for hunters, mages; good with rogues, classes that can break combat.)

Step 2. Go to Blackwing Lair.

Step 3. Kill the bosses up to and including Broodlord Lasher.

Step 4. DO NOT KILL ANY SPELLBINDERS IN THE NEXT ROOM.

Step 5. Pull all the Death Talon Overseers (kill the dragon bosses in the room as well).

Step 6. Kill all the Death Talon Overseers. If you have a magic AoE, just pull the entire room and AoE the entire room down if you'd like, since the Spellbinders are immune to magic. Remember, DO NOT KILL THE SPELLBINDERS. I wouldn't recommend this if you're just trying to farm scales, as you're inventory will fill up FAST from looting to try and skin the Overseers. However, this will get you tons upon tons of cloth and probably transmogs.